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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Wait, TNK can see the future? So does that mean he's gonna win? Seems a silly enterprise he's taken on if he knows he's going to lose.

He knows Dany has dragons. He knows his only real threat or threat to his campaign is right at his doorstep. And that threat is the brother of the kid just blessed as the 3 eyed raven. Did he do that to Bran? To send him back as spy under his domain? Is he symbiotic with Bran? It's something along those lines.


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tragabigzanda wrote:Wait, TNK can see the future? So does that mean he's gonna win? Seems a silly enterprise he's taken on if he knows he's going to lose.
Dime is putting a lot of faith into theories and speculation. Not saying he'll be wrong or anything, but its nothing I'd speak so confidently about.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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someone make dj shut the hell up, kthx
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Mecca wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Wait, TNK can see the future? So does that mean he's gonna win? Seems a silly enterprise he's taken on if he knows he's going to lose.
Dime is putting a lot of faith into theories and speculation. Not saying he'll be wrong or anything, but its nothing I'd speak so confidently about.

I good but I don't and can't read and stay up on game of thrones and Star Wars theories.

This one just seems likely to me.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
Mecca wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Wait, TNK can see the future? So does that mean he's gonna win? Seems a silly enterprise he's taken on if he knows he's going to lose.
Dime is putting a lot of faith into theories and speculation. Not saying he'll be wrong or anything, but its nothing I'd speak so confidently about.

I good but I don't and can't read and stay up on game of thrones and Star Wars theories.

This one just seems likely to me.
i doubt the future-seeing aspect of it. I know Bran can see visions of the past and uses warging into animals to see the present. The show kinda glosses over it, but his power is based around the weirwood trees and the faces on them seeing the events he can see. In the books they give people visions that are metaphors for things that are to come, but it isn't exactly prognosticating
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I don't recommend visiting this actual subreddit because they post based on leaked vids/scripts, but this had me rolling https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comme ... le_benjen/
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Two things I've been thinking about:

1. If Dany and Cersei are going to parlay next week and form a temporary alliance, they'll probably have to exchange hostages, right? We've know since Season 1 that that's how peace is forged between warring houses. Whom does each of them give up? Dany will obviously ask for Jaime (although I don't think Cersei will give in to that); does Cersei ask for a dragon? For Jon? Missendei?

2. I'm worried that there aren't enough episodes left for this, but I'm still hoping that we get some sort of more information on the White Walkers' motivations and characters. Hopefully they're not just ice zombies. Part of me thinks that maybe we've already gotten all we're going to get, i.e., that since they were created by the Children of the Forest, they're seeking revenge. But why would they just want revenge against men, since it was the Children who made them? Maybe they just want to kill Bran because of his connection to the Children? Maybe they're just mad, and there's no good reason for what they're doing? Hopefully it's not the last one.

Episode 7 title:
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"The Dragon and the Wolf"

The showrunners love titles that mean more than one thing, so I'm hoping that this refers to both Dany and Jon and Rhaegar and Lyanna. Flashback time?
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malice wrote:
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malice wrote:I predict there will be like snow and fire and uh, dragons in the next show
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I didn't notice that. The eye on the carving for Jons sword long claw, opens when he emerges from the water.
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dimejinky99 wrote:I didn't notice that. The eye on the carving for Jons sword long claw, opens when he emerges from the water.
The director said no:

http://uproxx.com/tv/jon-snow-sword-the ... -longclaw/
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Anders wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I didn't notice that. The eye on the carving for Jons sword long claw, opens when he emerges from the water.
The director said no:

http://uproxx.com/tv/jon-snow-sword-the ... -longclaw/
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malice wrote:
Anders wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I didn't notice that. The eye on the carving for Jons sword long claw, opens when he emerges from the water.
The director said no:

http://uproxx.com/tv/jon-snow-sword-the ... -longclaw/
Im betting good money dj still thinks it's true

It's a conspiracy!

I didn't notice it personally just saw it on twitter and thought I'd ask.

Meh
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what's it mean?
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It's weird to me that that slipped through in a scene that was so CGI'ed. And the CGI was all good!
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that's where the Night King stores his chains
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